Tag: post-relevant

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document Los Angeles: After the Water Ran Out— Places

# Los Angeles: After the Water Ran Out Los Angeles did not flood. Los Angeles burned, dried, and then emptied at a pace that, from the inside, felt indistin…

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document New York Below the Waterline: A Survey of the Drowned Districts— Places

…New York is informal in the way that the governance of all post-relevant cities is informal: block associations, neighborhood compacts, whatever agreements could be sustain…

place new-york drowned coastal-recession post-relevant history

document Seattle and the Quiet Coast: The Pacific Northwest After the Exodus— Places

# Seattle and the Quiet Coast: The Pacific Northwest After the Exodus Seattle is the exception that clarifies the rule. Unlike Los Angeles, it did not burn.…

place seattle pacific-northwest coastal-recession post-relevant history

document The Coastal Recession: How the American Coastlines Became Irrelevant— History

…towns. They are something more specific and harder to name: post-relevant cities. The infrastructure that justified their scale is gone. The economic activity that fed their…

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